Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and data domain
2011-06-17 03:15:49
Tim,
We are right conducting a POC with a pair of DD860, and are relatively
satisfied with them. The machines are mostly used as VTL except for a small
NFS partition which is used or TSM DB backups.
Deduplication rate is OK : around 10 so far, with a good mix of Exchange,
Oracle, DB2 as well as Win and AIX data.
Ingestion rate is corresponding to our needs, slightly more than 1 GB/s , and
the possibility to define plenty drives.
Negative or "no so impressive" points, so far : deduplication rate is a
"global" factor, impossible to know what type of data dedupes better than
another one, thus lowering the granularity of deduplication monitoring .
We also experienced pretty long initialization times for the TSM server
attached to a virtual library having 100 drives : at restart TSM server needs
at least 15 minutes to recognize all the drives, thus generating numerous
client errors, as they try to get a drive which is defined but not available.
We still have to experiment if defining more smaller libraries would solve that
issue ...
At least replication : it is still unclear for me what would be happening if
we do rely on replication to replace copy storage pools, and if our TSM server
crashes on primary site while replication is not completed. To my mind the
virtual volumes contents would not be matching TSM DB content : not sure so
far on how to handle such a situation ...
Hope this helped !
Cheers
Arnaud
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Tim Brown
Sent: Thursday, 16 June, 2011 21:50
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: tsm and data domain
Any one use emc's data domain devices for storage pools and replication
Would like to here positive and negative issues.
Thanks,
Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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